The Agricultural Labour Action Party () was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

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. The party was founded after the end of the Agrarian Politics Union Party. The first general elections contested by the party were in

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

, in which it received only 0.4% of the vote, and failed to win a seat. In

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

its vote share dropped to 0.3%, again failing to win a seat. In

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, its electoral performance improved, as it received 1.2% of the national vote and winning its first seat. However, in

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

, its vote share dropped to 0.7% and it lost its parliamentary representation. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p175

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